Tag Archives: Federal Courts

A new Fourth Amendment decision by the United States Supreme Court may significantly alter traffic stop interactions with state and local law enforcement in Virginia. The case has also abrogated two decisions by the Virginia Court of Appeals, paving the ...

Plaintiff’s lawyers feared they faced a high hurdle for class actions alleging employment discrimination after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2011 landmark decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes. Those lawyers may have found new hope in a May 11 decision by the ...

DuPont accused Kolon, a South Korean company, of stealing trade secrets related to Kevlar. The case proceeded to trial in July 2011, and on Sept. 14, 2011, after a seven-week trial, a U.S. District Court jury in Richmond rendered a ...

Decedent was prescribed and ingested Yaz birth control medication. She suffered massive pulmonary emboli and died as a result on March 12, 2008, after using Yaz for only three months. At the time of her death, decedent was in good ...

Employment lawyers may be recalibrating what it takes to get into federal court on a Title VII retaliation claim in the wake of a May 7 decision by a divided 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Employers have found sanctuary ...

A U.S. Supreme Court opinion cited Dr. Seuss for the first time on Feb. 25, five days before what would have been his 101st birthday. The case was Yates v. United States, a name that has a nice Seussian rhyme ...

A debtor thought she got a break on her student loans when a bankruptcy court approved her Chapter 13 payoff plan, but a Richmond federal court vacated that decision and said the loan guarantor could come after the debtor. Jenny ...

Plaintiffs brought two class actions under the federal WARN Act against two affiliates of Southern Coal Corporation. Both class actions were filed in the U.S. District Court in Abingdon. These actions arose from layoffs of approximately 155 coal miners by ...

The wreck occurred on Nov. 29, 2011, on Route 860 in the Franklin County. Route 860 is a narrow, curvy, winding, mountainous road without any road markings in the area where the accident occurred. Plaintiff was operating a 1999 Ford ...

An Alexandria federal district court abused its discretion by imposing a too-broad preservation duty on a travel agency suing on an oral contract, prompting a federal appeals court to vacate the lower court’s award of $10 million for lost profits. ...